Short answer: mostly yes, sometimes not necessary. They also eat the best possible food every day. Why should you keep the food with selected nutrients?
Many effects that can be achieved with the intake of tocotrienol-vitamin E only last as long as the intake continues, sometimes a short-term/amalgamation application is sufficient.
If it is a temporary problem, such as joint pain or redness of the skin, the immediate or short-term use can break the vicious circle that maintains the inflammation and is then no longer necessary.
If there is a permanent problem (for example in a mechanically damaged joint - arthrosis), the effect can be alleviated with permanently administered tocotrienolsn. In addition, healing processes are promoted in the medium term, which promise improvement.
There are studies with quantities that are slightly above what can be achieved through food and that show an interesting improvement in chronically unfavorable processes. This affects, for example, the blood lipids (heart/circulation), inflammatory processes in the brain or the effects of old age (“frailty of old age”). Here, very nice results can be achieved with medium amounts that are far above the amounts used in orthomolecular medicine.
Natural: Is the long-term supply of vitamins such as tocotrienol-vitamin E actually “natural”?
Of course, all vitamins are essential for life and must be supplied to humans (and animals) more or less regularly throughout their lives. In addition to 13 vitamins and 20 minerals, we also need a whole range of other essential substances such as protein, energy (calories), essential fats, air and water.
But that's not a big problem, because the living things we feed on (plants are living things too) are based on very similar cells and are capable of supplying us with all the necessary substances.
But a good selection of food is necessary, because some living beings only contain some things in very small quantities (for example, almost no vitamin C in grains and meat). The reason is that we feed ourselves almost exclusively from agriculture, the products of which are far from a natural composition.
- The most commonly produced products in agriculture contain a relatively large amount of food energy (calories) in relatively fewer vitamins/minerals/natural accompanying substances (antioxidants, phytosterols, secondary plant substances). We try to balance this out with selected products that contain a lot of individual vitamins ("treats"). But can we succeed in all 52 essential substances?
- Individual substances are particularly good for the organism. More of it improves our well-being, health and longevity
- Higher expectations thanks to our unusual longevity. As we get older, many processes slow down. This can be counteracted by increasing the supply of other substances.
- Higher demands due to our way of life with environmental toxins and close coexistence
Are tocotrienols actually contained in natural food?
Tocotrienols have always been contained in our food. Since the early days, the main foods have been barley (the main food intake is approx. 38 mg T3/d), rice, grape seeds and other fruits. For example, "Indians" in America use Annatto/Roucou daily, a good source of tocotrienol.
All oils and fats in plants contain different vitamin E isomers. Some plants rely more on the long-lasting but less effective tocopherols. Anthees, especially tropical plants, contain more of the much more effective but shorter-lived tocotrienols.